Sustainable Intensification of Cereal-based Farming Systems in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone of West Africa
Project Design Workshop
9-12 January 2012, Modern City Lodge, Tamale, Ghana
Rice Systems Working Group
Starting from the ideas in the concept note:
For your specific farming/production system, WHAT SPECIFIC IMPACTS and OUTCOMES (targets, quantifiable, timeframe) do we want to achieve, directly by our project, or through the actions of others. What problems will you solve?
For your chosen impacts and outcomes, specify HOW you would achieve these, with major timelines. What are your IMPACT or OUTCOME PATHWAYS?
For YOUR impact or outcome pathways:
Identify, as precisely as possible, WHO in terms of organizations, initiatives or other processes must be involved in your project, and how. Indicate what would be necessary to motivate them to fully engage in the project. What partners are needed to achieve your impacts?
Participants: Olipomi Ajayi (AfricaRice), Fred Kizito (IWMI), Rangaswamy Muniappan (IPM-CRSP), Cecil Osei (CRS), Issoufou Kollo (CORAF), Abdou Tenkuano (AVRDC), Jeff Hill (USAID/Washington), Nelson Agbo (AquaFish), Steve Amissah (AquaFish), Elizabeth Skewgar (USAID/Washington), Stephen Nutsugah (SARI), Tabi Karikari (AfDB)
Goals: What specific impacts, targets, timeframe for this project or through the actions of others?
-specify how to achieve, timelines?
Discussion:
To describe impacts, we need to know the constraints.
Nutsugah: From concept note – topics as integrated parts of whole system
From the CONCEPT NOTE
Inland valley systems – rice-based systems in lowlands
--There are three types: upland, rainfed lowland, irrigated
--Lowland intensification is easiest if there is moisture
With irrigation, opportunities are even greater
80-90% rice grown in dryland, starts like Maize. As season advances, flats are inundated to become wetland rice. In Navrongo cooridor, they do transplanting but there is still some dryland rice. In the past, all rice in N Ghana was considered upland, because it started dry, but it really grows in lowland, inland valley.
Constraint: Market requires raw-milled rice. Current production requires parboiling because of low moisture content; without parboiling it will break. Parboiling creates unappetizing product – odor and texture.
Target: irrigated, lowland
Location: Navrongo (rainfall 5-6 months, otherwise dry with falling water table), with spillover to Mali
Crops grown: vegetables (e.g., tomatoes, Irish potatoes, okra, eggplant, onion, pepper), legumes (e.g., cowpea, soybean under irrigation)
--Pepper needs a lot of water or it will not produce
--Intensifying within 5-6 month wet system is possible (cowpea before rice)
Approach:
Obei: Need focus on food security and livelihoods
Aquafish: Need environmental benefits and ecological integrity
--NRM and water management
Constraints (researchable issues?):
--Quality, Soil fertility, Water management
--How can we improve on existing systems?
Components (Muni):
Component
Rice
Vegetables
Legumes/Fish
Soil
Fertilizer
x
Water
Varieties
Drought tolerant vegetables
Pest management
Post harvest
Markets
Component Integration
Integrate fish with rice when water
Cecil Osei: looking for intensification factors – focus on production. Food security is affected by other investments. What is available now? What can we do for the future?
Jeff: need to stay within manageable interests. Are we talking about expanding systems or intensification of existing low-input systems? Where is SADA representative? There is going to be expansion of irrigated rice. And are you talking at household or landscape level?
Chair: Trying to improve what they can get out of the system. Rice environment is changing in the near future. There will be big rice farms. We now have small and medium farms.
Muni: Three ecosystems: Dry (no vegetables), hydromorphic (vegetables), wet (vegetables).
Abdou: When there is water, integrate fish and rice. When dry, focus on other integration.
--Impact of fish/rice culture when water is present
--What varieties of vegetables can be grown when dryer – drought tolerant vegetables
Recommendations of Transformation group:
Inventory
Innovation platforms - In year 1, reach 500 farmers with focus on women (technology ambassadors)
Identify partners in private sector, NGOs, other projects to reach farmer groups
IMPACT
Total factor productivity of lowland rice-based system increased by 100% in 5 years.
Sustainable Intensification of Cereal-based Farming Systems in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone of West Africa
Project Design Workshop
9-12 January 2012, Modern City Lodge, Tamale, Ghana
Rice Systems Working Group
Starting from the ideas in the concept note:
For YOUR impact or outcome pathways:
Participants: Olipomi Ajayi (AfricaRice), Fred Kizito (IWMI), Rangaswamy Muniappan (IPM-CRSP), Cecil Osei (CRS), Issoufou Kollo (CORAF), Abdou Tenkuano (AVRDC), Jeff Hill (USAID/Washington), Nelson Agbo (AquaFish), Steve Amissah (AquaFish), Elizabeth Skewgar (USAID/Washington), Stephen Nutsugah (SARI), Tabi Karikari (AfDB)
Goals: What specific impacts, targets, timeframe for this project or through the actions of others?
-specify how to achieve, timelines?
Discussion:
To describe impacts, we need to know the constraints.
Nutsugah: From concept note – topics as integrated parts of whole system
From the CONCEPT NOTE
Inland valley systems – rice-based systems in lowlands
--There are three types: upland, rainfed lowland, irrigated
--Lowland intensification is easiest if there is moisture
With irrigation, opportunities are even greater
80-90% rice grown in dryland, starts like Maize. As season advances, flats are inundated to become wetland rice. In Navrongo cooridor, they do transplanting but there is still some dryland rice. In the past, all rice in N Ghana was considered upland, because it started dry, but it really grows in lowland, inland valley.
Constraint: Market requires raw-milled rice. Current production requires parboiling because of low moisture content; without parboiling it will break. Parboiling creates unappetizing product – odor and texture.
Target: irrigated, lowland
Location: Navrongo (rainfall 5-6 months, otherwise dry with falling water table), with spillover to Mali
Crops grown: vegetables (e.g., tomatoes, Irish potatoes, okra, eggplant, onion, pepper), legumes (e.g., cowpea, soybean under irrigation)
--Pepper needs a lot of water or it will not produce
--Intensifying within 5-6 month wet system is possible (cowpea before rice)
Approach:
Obei: Need focus on food security and livelihoods
Aquafish: Need environmental benefits and ecological integrity
--NRM and water management
Constraints (researchable issues?):
--Quality, Soil fertility, Water management
--How can we improve on existing systems?
Components (Muni):
Cecil Osei: looking for intensification factors – focus on production. Food security is affected by other investments. What is available now? What can we do for the future?
Jeff: need to stay within manageable interests. Are we talking about expanding systems or intensification of existing low-input systems? Where is SADA representative? There is going to be expansion of irrigated rice. And are you talking at household or landscape level?
Chair: Trying to improve what they can get out of the system. Rice environment is changing in the near future. There will be big rice farms. We now have small and medium farms.
Muni: Three ecosystems: Dry (no vegetables), hydromorphic (vegetables), wet (vegetables).
Abdou: When there is water, integrate fish and rice. When dry, focus on other integration.
--Impact of fish/rice culture when water is present
--What varieties of vegetables can be grown when dryer – drought tolerant vegetables
Recommendations of Transformation group:
IMPACT
Total factor productivity of lowland rice-based system increased by 100% in 5 years.
INTERMEDIATE RESULTS
ACTIONS and PARTNERS
Projects and Initiatives: